Sunlight photocatalytic activity enhancement and mechanism of novel europium-doped ZnO hierarchical micro/nanospheres for degradation of phenol

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Volumn 148-149, Issue , 2014, Pages 258-268

  Sin, Jin Chung ^a   Lam, Sze Mun ^a   Satoshi, Ichikawa ^b   Lee, Keat Teong ^a   Mohamed, Abdul Rahman ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doping; Europium; Hierarchical; Photocatalysis; ZnO

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; EUROPIUM; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; GAS ADSORPTION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHENOLS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; RED SHIFT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

CHEMICAL SOLUTION ROUTE; ENERGY DISPERSION X-RAY ANALYSIS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIERARCHICAL; HYDROXYL RADICAL GENERATION; NITROGEN ADSORPTION DESORPTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; UV-VISIBLE DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84888786184     PISSN: 09263373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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